Today I had a strange problem with windows seven.
It informed me that there are new updates available. So I wanted to check what it is.
But it shows only “1 important update” if you click on show updates it displays at the left side (1 important update) but the list is empty.

So I clicked nevertheless on the install button and it installed something.

In Windows Vista and 7 only the Ultimate and Enterprise versions have the feature which allows you to install a languagepack.
But in the other versions you can do the same thing using the console and regedit.

In order to install a new language (in this example de-DE and the languagepack is located in G:\langpacks\de-de\lp.cab) you have to do the following steps

Download the language pack in the language you want to install

Make sure that there is an lp.cab file inside the folder of the language pack

Open the Console (CMD) with administrator rights (Run as administrator)

Type the following commands (note that you have to set the correct path of your language pack)

Well the installation took about 30 Minutes and after that it detected automatically the drivers and downloaded them (if necessary) from the internet.
The system is very fast and stable even if it runs on this (old) machine. If you try to install and run Vista on such a notebook you will have problems 🙂

Aero does not work but this is not such a problem.

I am surprised that it works so good. You have done a good job Microsoft! 🙂

If you create a new CustomControl and want to load an image from the resources you can use this method.
Because in CustomContorls you can not load the image with the path, therefore you have to load it directyl from the assembly.

Well as you already know I installed the final version (MSDN) of windows 7 two days ago and faced a few problems.
First of all there was this funny problem with the missing driver during the installation.

Well I try to summarize the good and bad news compared with the RCGood News

It is a little bit faster than the Release Candidate

Windows Media Player and Explorer are more stable and faster

Easy install of the language pack

Up to now I do not have the problem with unvisible windows (in the RC Version I had the strange problem that a window was no longer visible in the taskbar and ALT+TAB but after a while it came back)

In the Release Candidate I had also problems with memory leaks (especially Firefox) up to now I don’t have this problem

Generally the system seems to be very stable and fast

Bad News

The driver detection of the Release Candidate was much better (It found and downloaded every driver for my notebook but the final version did not. I had to do it manually.)

Sometimes the popup-preview of the taskbar does not show the image of the window (it just shows an icon)

I will update this list as soon as I have new good or bad news for the RTM.
But generally I can say that it is a very good operating system and that it is much better (faster) then vista

Yesterday I downloaded Windows 7 x64 from MSDN and burned the image on a rewritable disk.
Soon after the welcome screen of the setup it displayed me that the driver of the CD / DVD drive is missing.
First I was wondering how it is possible that I boot from DVD and it can read the DVD but then it displays a message that the driver is missing. It is a little bit strange.

So I tried it once again with the same result.

If solved this problem by installing Window 7 from my USB-Drive.
In order to do so you have to do the following steps: